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KotangaGirl
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#3382, #3383. Two more brilliant screenshots.
Imagineering in an alternative Norfolk Ken. Minor imaginary railways affiliated with the GER is the theme. The Manning Wardle is kind of possible since it was regauged in the wharf workshops, but the 2-4-2T tram engine is pure imagination. One of Tanker's friends made the basic model I used as a digital locomotive doddle just for fun and I converted it into a faux GER tram engine by reskinning it and adding tramway skirts and a bell; - it runs really well too.
Imagineering in an alternative Norfolk Ken. Minor imaginary railways affiliated with the GER is the theme. The Manning Wardle is kind of possible since it was regauged in the wharf workshops, but the 2-4-2T tram engine is pure imagination. One of Tanker's friends made the basic model I used as a digital locomotive doddle just for fun and I converted it into a faux GER tram engine by reskinning it and adding tramway skirts and a bell; - it runs really well too.
KotangaGirl
Pre-Grouping Railways Nut
H.T.Co. tram engine No.08 at Elgar Wood.
KotangaGirl
Pre-Grouping Railways Nut
More Hopewood Tramway. Tram engines at Hopewood Junction. No.08 in charge of a local passenger train has just left Hopewood on Sea station and No.022 is arriving from the Windweather Tramway with a train of open wagons loaded with shingle.
No.128 and No.07 at Hopewood on Sea.
No.128 and No.07 at Hopewood on Sea.
tailight98
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LNER Branch WIP
KotangaGirl
Pre-Grouping Railways Nut
#3387 Thanks very much Ken, they certainly are an interesting assortment and a lot of fun to play trains with.
Moody skies seem to be your specialty. I particularly like your first screenshot of the goods yard.
H.T.Co. No.2 with a local passenger train at Nodding Keep halt.
Moody skies seem to be your specialty. I particularly like your first screenshot of the goods yard.
H.T.Co. No.2 with a local passenger train at Nodding Keep halt.
EverTrainz
Electric Blue
Nice shots all.
Post 3390 that medley of PO wagons really captures the randomness that was freight stock back then.
Post 3390 that medley of PO wagons really captures the randomness that was freight stock back then.
borderreiver
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The randomness of freight stock is no surprise.
Don Rowland's work from the 1970s came to the conclusion that a layout to represent a location on the L.M.S. in 1938 with a loco shed having a ten loco allocation would require 23 coaches, 8 NPCCs and 733 wagons!
Out of that 733 some 328 would be private owner and 12 private owner specialist traffic wagons such as salt, tar, petroleum and acid.
If the layout was a half mile of double track (one mile of track) then the location could require as much as a further mile of track for sidings.
Coal was king and covered vans were only 1 in 6 of railway owned wagons (1 in 10 of all wagons).
Fitted stock amounted to only around 1 in 10 wagons.
Specialist railway owned wagons at the location would amount to 19 wagons, 13 of which would be for loco coal, sand and ash.
Back in the 1970s not even a large club would have had 733 wagons but the Trainz modeller of 2020 can put together a lot. Putting 328 PO wagons together might be a challenge though, since those 328 likely had many, many different companies represented. Probably not 328 different companies but perhaps 250. The common user agreement would mean that only around 43% of the railway owned wagons at the notionally L.M.S. location would have been L.M.S. stock. There would have been L.N.E.R. G.W.R. and S.R. wagons among the 57% which were not L.M.S. stock. Peter Tatlow admits that his lifelong interest in wagons was sparked by trying to answer the question he put to himself as a child, "why are there so many L.N.E.R. wagons at my L.M.S. home?"
Don Rowland's work from the 1970s came to the conclusion that a layout to represent a location on the L.M.S. in 1938 with a loco shed having a ten loco allocation would require 23 coaches, 8 NPCCs and 733 wagons!
Out of that 733 some 328 would be private owner and 12 private owner specialist traffic wagons such as salt, tar, petroleum and acid.
If the layout was a half mile of double track (one mile of track) then the location could require as much as a further mile of track for sidings.
Coal was king and covered vans were only 1 in 6 of railway owned wagons (1 in 10 of all wagons).
Fitted stock amounted to only around 1 in 10 wagons.
Specialist railway owned wagons at the location would amount to 19 wagons, 13 of which would be for loco coal, sand and ash.
Back in the 1970s not even a large club would have had 733 wagons but the Trainz modeller of 2020 can put together a lot. Putting 328 PO wagons together might be a challenge though, since those 328 likely had many, many different companies represented. Probably not 328 different companies but perhaps 250. The common user agreement would mean that only around 43% of the railway owned wagons at the notionally L.M.S. location would have been L.M.S. stock. There would have been L.N.E.R. G.W.R. and S.R. wagons among the 57% which were not L.M.S. stock. Peter Tatlow admits that his lifelong interest in wagons was sparked by trying to answer the question he put to himself as a child, "why are there so many L.N.E.R. wagons at my L.M.S. home?"
Thanks Annie, keep safe.
LBSCR WIP
Cheers, evilcrow
I couldn't agree more with Evertrainz and borderreiver here. The usage of the PO Wagons is spectacular! I especially like the engine you chose to pull them!
A little bit more of the Brighton Route Project. The city of Brighton and the Locomotive Works that supports it. In the style of Railway Roundabout no less!
LBSCR A1 Terrier 32635 is the shunter and pilot for the Brighton Locomotive Works. Once know as Morden, this little Stroudley tank spends its entire day managing and moving stock about the yards. Here we follow it on a typical schedule of it's daily duties.
32635 starts it's morning by working through the backlog of locomotives in need of repair. Today's first patient is No. 32408 an Ex-LBSCR E6 Class Radial Tank. Built by R.J Billinton in the later years of the LBSCR's existence for mixed traffic work, the stricken locomotive has been brought in for an axel replacement after suffering a numerous amount of hotboxes.
Now that the E6 has been secured inside shed 2 the maintenance of the engine can begin. Before 32635 can start on it's next engine, the monthly coal shipment for the works has arrived! This shipment will be used to power the generators used to run the workshop as well as the coal staithes that fill the tenders of every engine in the works as they are put back into service - including 32635 itself!
The locomotive delivering the shipment is No.32545 , a C2X Class - another ex-LBSCR design also built by Billinton - which is defined by it's distinct double domes . The secondary dome was not an orignal design, it's a modification installed by D.E. Marsh in an effort to improve steaming potential. The results were successful so many C2Xs still retain this design.
Finally we take a quick look inside the workshop as 32635 helps guide a Merchant Navy class out of the workshop to begin it's trail runs. Over the last year or so Bullied's Merchant Navy Class has undergone a complete overhaul to replace the oil driven valve gear system designed by Bullied himself. The new rebuilt locomotives have shed their streamline casing the had gotten them the name of "Spamcans" and instead are now sporting a smooth boiler, Walschaerts Valve Gear and a pair of smoke deflectors not unlike the Duchess Class of the LMS.
No.35003 "Royal Mail" is having a bit of trouble steaming up quickly. Since the works needs to start on it's next order, 32635 is instructed to move the pacific outside the workshop so it can complete it's steam building for it's new trial run. A West County class sits in the adjacent siding waiting for it's turn to undergo it's transformation into a rebuilt state.
KotangaGirl
Pre-Grouping Railways Nut
#3392 A very useful reminder Frank. A timely one for me too since I've just moved my Norfolk layout over to TANE SP3 and I'll be needing to populate the layout with goods wagons again very soon. Though the GER is a somewhat special case when it comes to wagon types in service due to the nature of the traffic it handled.
#3393 An interesting set of screenshots Tanker. Brighton Locomotive Works would almost be a complete layout in itself with regard to operation.
#3394 A lovely winter screenshot evilcrow. It's our Summer here at the moment which I don't like at all so one of your classic snow screenshots is just the thing to cheer me up.
Tram engine No.040 at Hopewood Junction. Moving my Norfolk layout to TANE was the usual tedious exercise in having to fix things and finding replacements for ancient payware/builtin assets that TANE didn't want a bar of. The pofig trees I'd been using in TS2012 won't work in TANE so I have a lot of new tree planting ahead of me. Otherwise all is good and the layout is more of less fully functional.
#3393 An interesting set of screenshots Tanker. Brighton Locomotive Works would almost be a complete layout in itself with regard to operation.
#3394 A lovely winter screenshot evilcrow. It's our Summer here at the moment which I don't like at all so one of your classic snow screenshots is just the thing to cheer me up.
Tram engine No.040 at Hopewood Junction. Moving my Norfolk layout to TANE was the usual tedious exercise in having to fix things and finding replacements for ancient payware/builtin assets that TANE didn't want a bar of. The pofig trees I'd been using in TS2012 won't work in TANE so I have a lot of new tree planting ahead of me. Otherwise all is good and the layout is more of less fully functional.
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Heinrich505
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Evilcrow,
Those are really neat winter shots. Your snow coverage looks so real, and the scene is composed very nicely. Lighting is perfect, as always.
Heinrich505
Those are really neat winter shots. Your snow coverage looks so real, and the scene is composed very nicely. Lighting is perfect, as always.
Heinrich505
borderreiver
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Cab view from a N.E.R. Worsdell P3 0-6-0 approaching the loops and water troughs at Low Wiske.
